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StripChat Review – Is StripChat Right For You?
Stripchat is an adult social network and website that offers live streaming of webcam performances. It features nudity, sexual activity and more. Broadcasts can be accessed on mobile, traditional, and virtual reality devices. There is a large community of young people who are looking to entertain others. You can also watch the performances from the privacy of your own home.
StripChat Review
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It is used to verify your age
Stripchat is a new site that doesn't require age verification. Anal-ytics was launched by the company in August 2020. The technology allows Stripchat to detect when a user is engaged in anal sex in a live stream. Users can opt out of this process or opt in to it.
Stripchat requires that you are at least 18 years of age to sign up. To prove your age, you will need to provide a government-issued ID. A government-issued ID will be required. You can also choose a nickname that is not your real name. You will need to verify your email address in order to complete the process. However, it's not necessary to complete this step to view public shows.
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Models on Stripchat have an average income potential of between $3,000 to $10,000 per month. However, this amount will initially be low during the initial weeks of operation. StripChat will give models an extra boost during their initial three hours. In addition, they pay the costs of advertising on the website to get new users.
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Wanted: Repeat bank robber with fondness for hats
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MINEOLA, N.Y. — Police in New York are on the hunt for a prolific bank robber who wears many hats.
Police say the man donned a range of wacky headpieces as he committed eight bank robberies in Nassau County over the course of 2 ½ months ending July 23.
One of the banks was robbed twice.
Surveillance photos show the robber wearing a floppy white hat at one bank. At another, he accessorized with a baseball hat that had a picture of President Barack Obama on it.
And at another, he decided on a hat with a long wig attached.
Police believe it's the same robber in all the photos.
They say the stickup artist typically gives tellers a note threatening violence and demanding cash.

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I am often surprised by the subtle connections that can be drawn between LACMA's exhibitions. Just yesterday I headed to the Pavilion for Japanese Art to see Fracture: Daido Moriyama, the first museum exhibition in Los Angeles devoted solely to the Japanese photographer best known for his gritty depictions of Japanese city life. The exhibition features black-and-white photos from early in Moriyama's career, as well as some of his more recent color photographs.
Having travelled to Japan a couple of years ago, I was curious to compare my own memories of Tokyo and Shinjuku with Moriyama's images. To me, while chaotic, most of Tokyo is the pinnacle of order, efficiency, and cleanliness. Where I visited, there was barely a single piece of trash on the street and not a single person coughed in public without attempting to cover his or her mouth. As I mentioned, certain areas were certainly chaotic—Shibuya, in particular (think those gigantic crosswalks where hundreds of pedestrians swarm into the intersection from every direction)—but even that frenzy is reined in by an impulse toward order (red hand means stop and they stop).
I ended up having a much more visceral response than I expected to Moriyama's images. The textures in his photos—the fuzz of a young boy's buzz cut, water splashing off of the scales of fish that are systematically being pulled from the water by an industrial fishing line—left an existential grit on my skin, in my mouth. I could taste the saltiness of the tears of post–World War II Japan; I could feel the smog in my lungs, the grease on my fingers of defiant and rapid industrialization/westernization of a country determined to bounce back.
Truthfully, it almost became too much for me to bear . . . until I came across two photos. The first is one called Beauty Parlor, Tokyo (c. 1975). The photo appears to be a close-up of a beauty parlor advertisement: a radiant Japanese woman—skin and blouse blazing white—set against a dark, dirty street, the black-dusted sky crisscrossed by low-hanging power lines. While, in theory, this is the ultimate cynical statement about the westernization of Japan—the emphasis on production and economic growth veiled only slightly by the western ideal of beauty—I still found this photo to be oddly stimulating. That girl looks fun. She looks like she would appear in a Haruki Murakami novel hanging out in a jazz club with a talking cat.
The second photo that lifted my spirits is called Beach Boys, Zushi, Japan (1967). I was immediately drawn to this photo. For one, it's fairly large—hard to miss. But the composition of the photo is also alluring. The men's bodies are reclined at the same angle on the beach, each body glistening. It's almost as if their bodies have been lapped up onto the beach by waves—handsome fish beached on the shore. I also like this photo because these guys remind me of the Japanese men in my life—my father, my grandfather who passed away last week, and my father-in-law. All three of them were good-looking chaps during that era, if not in a Japanese-boy-band kind of way.
As I pondered these Japanese men in their fashionable swim trunks, another LACMA exhibition came to mind: California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way." With Moriyama's postwar psychological burden placed firmly on my shoulders, I walked over to the Resnick Pavilion for some levity. Maybe in my mind I thought I could make a connection between these sunbathers in the land of the rising sun and the Catalina Sportswear bathing suits that are featured in the exhibition.
The exhibition itself is light, airy, and colorful, with the clean lines of mid-century design and a mix of wood, metal, and textiles (it closes June 3 btw!). My first, if not misguided, thought was, "Wow, this is how the winners prospered!" What I meant by that is that postwar America—in this case California—seemed to really embrace the hope that the defeat of Germany and Japan in World War II brought. It was an extraordinary time in the history of California art and design. People took advantage of the ramped-up domestic economy and industry to create some astonishing things—to create a distinct style and lifestyle that they exported (Japan imported its fair share, no doubt). Obviously other things were going on that made this era so lush with creativity in California. However, to me, juxtaposing the two exhibitions helps to contextualize the time and place of the artists in each.
None of this is to say that Japan was all gloom and doom. The Japanese created some extraordinary art during that time—I think that it just germinated from a different philosophical seed than that of California artists. But don't take my word for it: Check out Fracture: Daido Moriyama for yourself, which is on view through July 31. Also, LACMA is presenting a film series, High and Low: Postwar Japan in Black and White, along with the Fracture, starting tomorrow night through Saturday, and then it picks up again June 8–9.
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Today's News: Our Take - Fox News Is "Parting Ways" With Sarah Palin
Fox News is parting ways with one of its most polarizing contributors - former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Executive Vice President Bill Shine told The Associated Press that the network "thoroughly enjoyed our association" with Palin, who came aboard in January 2010. "We wish her the best in her future endeavors," Shine added. Another source confirmed that the split was amicable, the AP reports.
Palin, who reportedly earned $1 million a year as a contributor, made her final appearance on Greta Van Susteren's show in December, according to the AP. In recent months, her influence at the network appeared to be waning. In August, Palin was reportedly irked that Fox News nixed her appearance one night at the Republican National Convention, and in November, the network turned to her minimally for commentary on the presidential election.
Fox News recently hired former Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich as a contributor.
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Well, I am biased, as the President are visiting Dubai for 4th Global Business Forum on Africa on the 2nd November 2017. President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is trying to cater to foreign investors. People who he usually cater to at the State House, so he can get favors and Presidential Handshakes. That is why he isn't bothered with taxes, because the tax-holidays and possible offerings will be huge for the investors who comes in. That is what the National Resistance Movement (NRM) are doing, especially if it is for instance a nations offering the state loan, than the same state can come with state-companies to build infrastructure like Chinese companies coming in after offering loans to the same NRM government. Therefore, just look at what he was saying yesterday, which is weird, but fit a pattern.
"Since you are business people, we must be talking about profits. When you talk of Uganda and Africa, you are talking about peace as an enabling environment; which we have. We have raw materials, and have a population of 40 million people that's' a market. And if we talk of integration we have a four tear market" (…) "In Africa, the demand is there and growing because we have been under-consuming while the rest of the world the demand is falling because they have been over consuming" (…) "There are plenty of raw materials, minerals, tourism and so on so when you invest there you have access to all these" (…) "I don't have to bother investors with taxes, what I want is for them to invest, use our raw materials, create jobs, add value and promote exports" (State House Uganda, 2017).
Well, so the President trying to say to foreign investors, you don't need to pay taxes for your output, just cater to me. The state you don't have to bother about, just bother about catering to the State House and me. We will add value and promote exports, we will agreements and make sure you get the value on our resources and low-payed workers.
We know who is the biggest taxpayers in the republic, because of Uganda Revenue Authority own statement in the media on the 31st October 2017, which stated names like Mr. Alnasir Virani Gulam Hussein Habib, Dr. Sudhir Ruparelia, Mohammed Hussain, Nakayima Janat, Karia Minex, Karia Kunnal, Alykhan Hudani and Dayalijil Karan. Who are sounding like foreign investors and they are on the top 25 biggest taxpayers in Uganda. So the state has already connected families from abroad to invest there in various businesses. This shows there are already people who is not worried about taxes, but about the output of their companies.
Some of these investors has made big names, while others have worked more in silence. Still, this shows that the top earners even promoted by URA and Doris Akol. Proves how they are working, as there wasn't that many own citizens on the list. That shows that the foreign investors must get a special advantage and special agreements at the state house for their dealings. Especially, considering how it has been done, just for tearing down markets in Kampala for own investors and financial agreements. This has been done and arranged from the State House without consultation with locals, neither KCCA or the renters of these markets. That is how the NRM and Museveni do deals in favor of him and if he get ill-gained funds, he will support the "development". It is in similar fashion he exposes his intent in Dubai.
That the State doesn't need taxes or need structures to facilitate for foreign investors, they just needs agreements with State House and then it is all fair-game. It is insane, but fits the Modus Operandi of the Musevenism and NRM regime. Give him a Presidential Handshake and you can operate as you want in the Republic. Peace.
State House Uganda – 'President Museveni woos Arab investors to Uganda "We have the raw materials, human resource and market"' (02.11.2017) link: https://www.africa-newsroom.com/press/president-museveni-woos-arab-investors-to-uganda-we-have-the-raw-materials-human-resource-and-market?lang=en


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Welcome to Week 87 of Three Line Tales.
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Looking to Unlock Huawei Ascend P7 when you Forgot your Password? We will teach you how to Unlock Huawei Ascend P7 Smartphones easily without a password.
|Huawei Ascend P7
|139.8 x 68.8 x 6.5 mm (5.50 x 2.71 x 0.26 in)
|Kirin 910T (28 nm)
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Android phones are more affordable and quite feature-rich. Modern Android phones offer a huge space to store a lot of things. Most of us like to protect data stored on our devices to prevent misuse of that data. People use various types of protections to ensure unauthorized people can't access their devices.
What if your Huawei Ascend P7 is locked and can't recall the password? Is it possible to unlock a Huawei Ascend P7 without a password? Yes, it is possible and I am going to share 6 simple methods to unlock a Huawei Ascend P7 phone without a password. Continue reading to find a quick solution!
1. Unlock Huawei Ascend P7 by Semi-Data Loss Method
It is the fastest way to unlock Huawei Ascend P7 who want to unlock the device at any cost.
You are going to lose some data, but your mobile phone will get unlocked and it will be fully functional.
Try the following steps to unlock your phone now.
Step 1: Power off Huawei Ascend P7
Step 2: Now, you have to boot Huawei Ascend P7 into the recovery menu. Press a combination of Smartphone buttons, such as Pressing the Power Button along with the Home button or one of the Volume keys. Find out the combination of buttons for your Smartphone and then proceed ahead!
Step 3: In your Huawei Ascend P7, you have to pick the "Clear Data or Factory Reset" option.
Step 4: Now, Huawei Ascend P7 will reset your device and eliminate all the data stored on your phone. It will be faster and unlocked!
Remember, many of your files, applications, and settings will vanish if you try this method. So, try it only if there is no important file stored on your mobile phone!
2. Unlock Huawei Ascend P7 by Google Recovery Method
It is the most popular method to unlock an Huawei Ascend P7 without losing any data.
Step 1: Enter a wrong password or pattern five or more times to unlock the phone. Your phone will offer the "Forgot Password" or "Forgot Pattern" option at the bottom of the screen. Select this option and move forward.
Step 2: Now, enter your email ID and password and then click the sign-in button to move forward.
Note 1: If your phone is not connected to the internet, ask your friend to make a call. Now, you should be able to access the notification panel to turn on the WiFi.
Note 2: If you have forgot your Google Password then head over to https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery and recover your password.
Step 3: Google will verify your credentials within a few seconds and then it will ask you to choose a new lock. Set a new password lock or pattern lock to secure your device.
It is a simple solution that works always for Huawei Ascend P7. You must remember the email ID and password to try this method!
3. Unlock Huawei Ascend P7 by Android Device Manager
The Google Recovery Method won't work if you are using Android 5.0 or a newer version. Try the Android Device Manager method to unlock your phone without losing data.
Step 1: Get another Android phone with internet connectivity or a laptop.
Step 2: Search Android Device Manager or Google Find My Device in your Play Store, Install and click the top link. Now, provide your email ID and password and then sign in.
Step 3: Now, you will get a map on the screen along with three options "Ring", "Lock", and "Erase". Select the "Lock" option and move forward.
Step 4: The Android Device Manager will ask you to enter the new password and other details. Complete the procedure and your device will unlock shortly after you set permissions correctly.
If that also doesn't work, you can click the Erase option and it will work like the factory reset option.
Your device will eventually unlock but you will lose the data if you click that "Erase" button!
4. Unlock Huawei Ascend P7 by Custom Recovery
It is a more complicated method to unlock Huawei Ascend P7 without a password. This method requires breaking into the Android system and erasing files that hold your pattern lock or password information.
This method works only if custom recovery is installed on your Huawei Ascend P7 Smartphone!
Step 1: Turn off your mobile phone.
Step 2: Now, you have to find the combination of buttons that you need to press to take the phone into the custom recovery mode. Check the button combination online, which might be holding Power and Volume up or down buttons simultaneously.
Step 3: Now, select the "Mount" option and then enable all the options that appear in the new menu.
Step 4: Go back to the main menu and then select the install button. Note, you have to download and transfer the AROMA File Manager file to your phone. Now, select the Aroma file manager folder and open it.
Step 5: Once the Aroma File Manager is installed, get into this folder and select the "data" option.
Now go to the "System" folder and then go all the way down to delete files named "gatekeeper", "locksettings", or "lockscreen". Old Android phones may feature these files as "gesture.key" or "password.key".
There might be 5-6 such files. Select all those files and delete them.
Step 6: Get back to the main custom recovery mode menu and then select the "Reboot" option.
Your phone is unlocked now and you can access the required files.
5. Unlock Huawei Ascend P7 by Safe Mode Method
You can boot the Huawei Ascend P7 into safe mode to unlock it. This is the best way to bypass third-party locks and access the device.
Step 1: First press the power button once and then press the same button for a few seconds.
Step 2: You will get the reboot or power off option on the screen, so press it for a while. You get an additional menu, so press the reboot button to get into safe mode.
Step 3: The third-party app lock has now disappeared.
Step 4: You should now reset the data to disable the third-party lock permanently.
Step 5: Restart your phone to access your device and avoid further troubles.
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This method works fine on Huawei Ascend P7. Your Find My Mobile account is already set up. Try the following tips to unlock it.
Step 1: Get a laptop and connect it to the internet.
Step 2: Search Find My Mobile on your web browser and then sign in.
Step 3: The interface will look pretty similar to the Android Device Manager program. However, here you can find the "Unlock My Device" option. Click that option to unlock your phone.
Your phone must be connected to the internet to try this method. We have already explained how to connect a locked smartphone to the internet.
So, try any of these suitable methods and get Huawei Ascend P7 unlocked immediately.


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Federal authorities announced this week that they have seized an estimated $100 million worth of ancient art linked to Subhash Kapoor, the New York art dealer currently facing trial in India — and an arrest warrant in the United States — for his alleged role in an international antiquities smuggling network.
For some perspective on that number, the FBI's art squad has seized a total of $150 million in art since its inception in 2004, according to its website.
"In our view, Mr Kapoor is one of the most prolific commodities smugglers in the world," said Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent in Charge James T. Hayes (shown above with the seized objects.) "It's one of our most significant antiquities and artifacts investigations that we've conducted in the history of this agency."
Our past coverage of the Kapoor case and museums that have material from him can be found here.
The seizures revealed Wednesday were valued at $5 million and secured with cooperation from Customs and Border Protection, the Manhattan DA's office, Interpol and Indian authorities. They include a 14th Century bronze Parvati figure from the Chola dynasty that was surrendered to ICE by an unnamed dealer in Europe. "Even though the statue had been placed on the Interpol Stolen Works of Art Database, the Parvati had passed through the hands of six different dealers and been given multiple layers of false provenance over the past six years," Hayes said. In addition, four bronze figures were seized in recent months that are believed to have been stolen from temples in Tamil Nadu.
Hayes stressed that the Kapoor investigation, dubbed Operation Hidden Idol, was on-going as agents continue to dig into Kapoor's four decades as a Manhattan dealer whose gallery Art of the Past sold objects to museums around the world. Those include some of the more than 200 objects sold by Kapoor that we've identified in previous posts.
Hayes urged collectors and museums that had purchased objects from Kapoor to come forward and notify investigators.
"We ask that those collectors contact us," Hayes said. "Our investigation is on-going and we're looking to confirm the legitimacy of those objects. We have already received several calls from law firms representing people who had acquired pieces through Kapoor and were concerned about whether they were in possession of stolen goods."
I took the opportunity to ask Hayes about ICE's work combating the antiquities trade. To their credit, ICE has significantly ramped up their investigations of the illicit trade in recent years: more than 6,600 artifacts have been returned to 24 countries since 2007. But critics note that those forfeitures and flashy repatriation ceremonies with foreign officials have often not been followed by criminal charges against key players in the trade.
"The focus is always to return stolen property to its rightful owners," Hayes acknowledged, saying making criminal cases was desirable, but challenging. "You have to have a legal basis to prove those items, and you have to prove certain things and that proves very difficult. We're dealing with laws around the world, in foreign courts and different jurisdictions."
To be sure, ICE investigators have played an important role in several recent criminal investigations that led to guilty pleas, including Arnold Peter Weiss and Morris Khouli. "From where I sit, we're very focused on putting those smuggling networks out of business," Hayes said. "At the end of the day, our primary responsibility is to get stolen property back to its rightful owners."


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In the Land of Myths
It's a long way to the runout routes of Meteora, a climbing area as ancient as Greek myth.
"C'mon, Jimi, you got it!"
No, I thought, you don't understand. This is not a sport climb. We're not in Kalymnos anymore; no nice bolt at my knees.
Tania said it again, this time with a little exasperation: "Come on, you got it!"
Got what, you crazy Greek woman? I've got enough sense to know this is dangerous. This little peanut-knob I'm high-stepping is going to pop, and I'm gonna bounce off the slab and land on you.
Tania, my partner that day, a climber with boundless psyche, wanted to go up. Bold. Beautiful. Up.
I was leading, and I wanted to go down. Sad. Defeated. Weak. Down.
Now I was getting sewing-machine leg, something I hadn't experienced in years, and it brought to mind an old question. It's a simple question that has no simple answer.
Why am I doing this?
I had traveled to Greece alone, and my odyssey had begun on the island of Kalymnos with fantastic sport climbing on tightly bolted overhangs, swimming in the warm Aegean Sea, and putting around on a little scooter without a care in the world. Then I met Tania Matsuka and she convinced me to go to Meteora, the ancient and mythical climbing area in the Thessaly region of northern mainland Greece.
In the past, my motivation for climbing was simple: to challenge myself on something beautiful, daunting and inspiring. But I've mellowed over the years, and I had to admit that now, I just wanted to impress Tania, who believed that since I was from California and could crank on sport climbs, I could also lead scary trad.
Kiesel Am Himmel is a beautiful, seven-pitch black streak that looks like the Bachar-Yerian in Tuolumne. I wanted to be a hero and lead to the top of this fearsome and beautiful 1,000-foot cobblestone mountain called Sourlati.
Kiesel Am Himmel (5.12-) had been very reasonable on the first two, harder pitches. The climbing was fun and slightly run out on protruding—sometimes exploding—pebbles both big and small. The easier third pitch (5.9) proved to be the psychological crux. In Meteora, technically easier climbing dictates a scarcity or even absence of bolts.
This confluence of conditions—embedded but loose pebbles and widely spaced (20-30 feet) bolts on the easier pitches, had conspired to defeat me on more than half the climbs I had tried. In two weeks, I had backed off more climbs in Meteora than I had in my entire 25-year climbing life, and Tania was tired of my whimpering.
Daily, I would curse Dietrich Hasse, the strict German guidebook author and first ascentionist of many routes in Meteora. During the 1970s he brought a minimalist, ground-up ethic to Meteoran climbing, and from what I could ascertain on his sparsely bolted routes, he didn't worry much about holds breaking. His 1986 guidebook is the only one, to date, and its instructions for signing the summit registers are as fierce and no-nonsense as he: Don't write anything funny or irreverent; name, date and style of ascent only. Climbing clothing, he writes, is likewise to be taken seriously: "Climbers will need climbing breeches and a climbing jacket with padded knees and elbows and a robust safety helmet intended mainly for protection in case of a fall."
I went up. Bold. Beautiful. Scared Shitless. Up. No padded breeches. After 20 feet of trembling, knob-pimping roulette, a scary mantel and finally a good stance, I was greeted by a big ring bolt and cheers from Tania. My relief was short-lived, however, and the next run out, even bigger, proved too much for my fried adrenal glands. Once again, it was time to give in and go down. Sad. Defeated. Down. I offered the lead to Tania, but she would have none of it.
I consoled myself that we had climbed two great pitches, and now the rest of the day was free. We could have a swim in the campground and explore the amazing cliff-top monasteries that the region is famous for. Tania was not so happy; she wants to climb all day, every day. She's frustrated here in Greece, living in Athens, working as a computer engineer.
"There are only about 10 other women in all of Greece who regularly lead," she lamented. I told her about American women who live out of their vans in Indian Creek and Yosemite and saw her eyes blaze with longing.
"I will do it someday!" she said with fanatic conviction.
Back at camp, Tania found a partner for some more climbing in the hot afternoon. I swam and made my way to the Varlaam Monastery. A metal cross on display inside it, about the size of a man, had been brought here by helicopter in 1975 from the summit of one of Meteora's most impressive peaks, The Holy Ghost, a steep-sided, bulky 1,000-foot tower. The cross is said to have resided on the summit since the Serbs conquered Thessaly in 1348. While many of the summits in Meteora show signs of ancient ascents—peg-holes every 15 to 20 feet that once anchored handmade ladders—The Holy Ghost gives no such clues. Was this mighty peak, 5.9 at its easiest (and the most sought-after summit in Meteora by modern climbers), climbed over 600 years ago by a free-soloing monk?
As crazy as that sounds, there are said to be even earlier climbing exploits: some sources believe the first Meteoran summits were attained as early as the 9th century. Dietrich Hasse speculates that in the 14th century an overhanging section of 5.7 was climbed on the shortest aspect of Alyssos, a massive cliff that towers 1,000 feet over Kalambaka.
It's fantastic to wonder about the hermetic monks and their motivations for building, at first, huts, and later the massive monasteries atop these inaccessible peaks. The common belief is that the monks sought refuge and religious freedom from the expanding and oppressive Turkish Empire. Upon seeing the monasteries first hand, any marauding Turks must have turned away, heads shaking like those of tourists in Yosemite: How did the monks get up there?
Actually, legend has it that Saint Athanasios, the founder of the monastery on Broad Rock in 1344, did not scale the 100-foot, 5.6, near-vertical cliff, but was carried there by an eagle. Other accounts vaguely claim that he hired a local climber to bring him to the summit. Clearly, the monks' climbing had an element of necessity, but I like to think that adventure, ingenuity and a faith-based go-for-broke attitude likewise possessed them to summit these audacious peaks.
Consider, for example, that upon establishing the monasteries, the monks used ropes and baskets to transport supplies and other monks up and down vertical faces, some 200 feet high. When asked how often the handcrafted ropes are replaced, the monks' ancient and famous reply has always been, "When the Lord lets them break!"
After my history lesson at the Monastery, I felt even wimpier. I rationalized that the monks had been driven by survival, and emboldened with their faith in God. Faith that success or failure was in God's hands amounted to cheating, as near as I could tell. Still, I vowed to make it up something the next day.
I partnered with Sanam Pejuhesh, an American friend who now lives and teaches English in Arco, Italy. I had e-mailed her from Kalymnos, cajoling her with the virtues of Meteoran climbing, which, at the time, I knew nothing about. The two of us chose a highly recommended classic, The Pillar of Dreams, a nine-pitch 5.9.
Sanam looked up for the first bolt, which, of course, was nowhere to be seen.
"This isn't exactly sport climbing, is it?" she asked, consulting Hasse's cryptic guidebook. The guidebook is full of strange symbols, unfamiliar even to world travelers like Sanam. "Hey, what's the '(!)' mean?" she asked.
"I think that means it's a good route," I lied. I had been avoiding routes with the "(!)" symbol, which means serious and run-out. What I had begun to find, though, and what the guidebook had not mentioned, is that the rock is usually more solid and clean on the very popular routes.
I started up the first pitch, hoping I was going the right way. The rock was solid and after some hunting around, I stumbled upon the first ring bolt, 40 feet up. With no fear of breaking knobs, we felt free to negotiate the run-outs (up to 40 feet on easy terrain) with confidence, climbing through fields of cobblestones, some bigger than a basketball, others smaller than a marble. A squeeze chimney on the fourth pitch was the crux, with just a few spots that would accept a single cam—spooky, but not horrendous. By the time we reached the broad, grassy summit, Sanam's frown had turned to her usual radiant grin.
On a rest day, Tania introduced me to George Vaiou and Vangelis Batsios, local climbers who had broken with tradition by bolting on rappel. Like proud parents, they steered us toward their eight-pitch Action Direct (5.11 A0 or 5.13b), a brilliant and steep line that follows an ominous jet-black, knobby water streak up a monolithic portion of the Holy Ghost. With bolts only 10 or 12 feet apart, the route could almost be called a sport climb.
George, delighted that we immediately climbed and loved his route, decided that it was time for Tania and me to meet the Man. He arranged a visit with Dietrich Hasse the next day at Hasse's summer home in Kastraki.
Hasse turned out to be very friendly and generous with his time. His disarmingly sweet smile didn't jibe with my fantasy of him as a severe psycho who wanted to kill me with his run-outs. Instead we sat on the back porch of his small stucco house, looking out upon most of the massive Meteoran rocks, as he served lemonade and potato chips. Hasse is 76 and no longer climbs, but he is still passionate about his routes and Meteora. I asked about the huge run-outs and single-bolt belays, but he waved my concerns away like a bothersome fly, saying, "There has been only one serious injury in the entire history of modern Meteora climbing!"
When I asked him about some of the climbs that combined 30-foot run-outs and bad rock, he chided, "You must always climb with three points of contact." I couldn't really argue, despite having taken sudden whippers here on steep rock when knobs had popped; he was living proof that his approach had worked for him.
As the days went by, I chose my climbs more carefully. On solid rock I was able to climb more freely even high above the bolts. Other discoveries were warm spinach pie (at 7 a.m.) from the bakery in Kastraki, and $2 gyros in Kalambaka. For dinner I shared the camaraderie of Greek and German climbers by the outdoor cooking pavilion in the campground. In the evenings I walked through mazes of thousand-foot monoliths, discovered quiet brooks, secret monasteries and the flowering meadows hidden within them.
On rest days, I took day trips to an endless supply of wonderful places, such as a 108-degree F waterfall in the nearby town of Thermopoulis. To the west I found deserted white sand beaches with dazzling blue water. Everywhere, I met friendly locals and learned that Greek mythology is alive and well. I heard stories of seven-day earthquakes that created mountain ranges and oceans. I photographed a super-strong local and policeman-in-training, Christos Tsourvakas, on a splitter arête called Dragonian Devil (5.13c) that forms the right side of a huge cave. When asked about the name, he told me the myth of the Dragon Man.
"He lived here in this cave, and terrorized the locals back in the 1940s or '50s," he said. "He threatened and screamed at anyone who came close."
According to the myth, God or fate collapsed the cave's roof onto the madman, squashing him. When I asked where the remains of the Dragon Man were, Christos raised an eyebrow, and responded with the chilling words, "Under the boulder we are sitting on!"
It has sometimes seemed to me that in Europe only the biggest, most important events are written about in the history books, while the smaller episodes pass down from generation to generation through the hazy lenses of local memories until they become myth. No one remembers the name of the Dragon Man, or if he was schizophrenic or just plain evil.
Likewise, no one really knows for certain who first climbed any of the towers in Meteora, or how or why. But the evidence of ancient climbing is everywhere: an old hut on a high ledge here, an abandoned lattice of ancient wooden pegs and platforms there. Prayer flags in a cave 200 feet up on a blank wall! It's up to you to ponder the improbability, and if you do, you might find that that stretch of rock to the next distant bolt is not really that far after all.
Jim Thornburg has eked out a living as a climbing photographer for over 20 years. He is currently working on a photography book about North American climbing areas. Check out www.jimthornburg.com.


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As the hype for pitcher Stephen Strasburg's debut reaches a fever pitch, with media coverage rivaling a league championship series, the Washington Nationals are releasing additional $10 standing room only tickets via the stadium box office this afternoon, ensuring an all-time Nationals Park attendance record will be set tonight.
With the stands overflowing and the auxiliary press box bursting at the seams, the Nats have still found room to invite a handful of additional non-paying guests — Pittsburgh's Racing Pierogies — who will no-doubt make an appearance during the 4th-inning presidents race for the 3-game homestand.
A pierogies appearance at Nationals Park was not a foregone conclusion given what happened on their last trip to DC. Just one year ago, in the series finale, the Pittsburgh mascots apparently went off-script, tricking the presidents and winning a race at Nationals Park, the only time no president was declared a winner.
Later in the season, in a relay race at Pittsburgh's PNC Park, racing pierogie Potato Pete ran onto the field from the stands and delivered a crushing open-field tackle on Teddy Roosevelt, a take-down that ESPN SportsCenter anchor Scott Van Pelt called "the greatest highlight I've ever seen."
Some have speculated that tonight could be Teddy's big night. In an evening sure to be filled with memorable highlights, let's hope the Pierogies don't play the spoiler.
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Thomas Berger, the witty and eclectic novelist who reimagined the American West in the historical yarn Little Big Man and mastered genres ranging from detective stories to domestic farce, has died at age 89.
Berger's literary agent said Monday that Berger died July 13 in a hospital in Nyack, N.Y., just days before his 90th birthday. He had been in failing health.
One of the last major authors to have served in World War II, Berger wrote more than 20 books, including the autobiographical Rinehart series, a Little Big Man sequel and The Feud, about warring families in a 1930s Midwest community.
The Feud was recommended for the 1984 Pulitzer Prize by the fiction jury but was overruled by the board of directors, which awarded another Depression-era novel, William Kennedy's Ironweed.
Berger's biggest mainstream success was Little Big Man, published in 1964 and an ultra-wry tale of 111-year-old Jack Crabb, who alleges that he was abducted by Indians as a young boy and later fought with the Cherokees in the Battle of Little Big Horn. The novel was adapted into a 1970 movie of the same name, starring Dustin Hoffman.
Other Berger novels made into films include Neighbors, which starred John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, and Meeting Evil, featuring Samuel L. Jackson and Luke Wilson.
Never as famous as such contemporaries and fellow veterans as Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut, Berger became the kind of writer who made fans feel special just for knowing about him. Admirers regarded him as unique and underappreciated, a comic moralist equally attuned to the American past and present.
"Berger's books are accessible and funny and immerse you in the permanent strangeness of his language and attitude, perhaps best encapsulated by Berger's own self-definition as a `voyeur of copulating words,'" Jonathan Lethem wrote in a 2012 essay. "He offers a book for every predilection: if you like Westerns, there's his classic, Little Big Man; so, too, has he written fables of suburban life (Neighbors), crime stories (Meeting Evil), fantasies, small-town `back-fence' stories of Middle American life, and philosophical allegories (Killing Time)."
Berger was born in Cincinnati, the son of a public school business manager and a housewife. He was a dreamer, seeking new worlds on the nearest bookshelf. His favorite works included the legends of King Arthur and, because he was born close enough to the 19th century to hear first-hand accounts, histories of the Battle of Little Big Horn.
"Very early in life," he once said, "I discovered that for me reality was too often either dull or obnoxious, and while I did play all the popular games that employ a ball, lower hooks into the water, and, especially fire guns, I preferred the pleasure of the imagination to those of experience, and I read incessantly."
Berger served in the Army from 1943 to 1946 and used some of his experiences in Germany for his debut novel, Crazy in Berlin. He was an undergraduate at the University of Cincinnati, then a graduate student at Columbia University, where he studied under the critic Lionel Trilling and attempted a book on George Orwell, a lasting influence.
Berger worked in libraries as a young man and for a variety of publications, from The New York Times Index to Popular Science Monthly. At a workshop at the New School for Social Research, Berger met such fellow students as Jack Kerouac, Mario Puzo and William Styron and a painter, Jeanne Redpath, who became his wife. He wrote short stories in his 20s but disliked the art form, believing he needed more space "to create my alternative reality."
Little Big Man was his third novel. As he told American Heritage magazine, he began the book in 1962 with "the intention of comprising in one man's personal story all the themes of the Old West that have since become legendary."
Jack Crabb was based on a fictional character, the blowhard Kit Carson in William Saroyan's play The Time of Your Life.
"The book's appeal traces to two main currents: one, it's a tall tale in the great American tradition of Mark Twain, and, second, it's hip, modern and funny and anticipates appreciation and understanding of a vanished Indian culture by decades," the critic Allen Barra wrote for salon.com in 2006.
In more recent novels, Berger satirized the frustrations of contemporary domestic life. In Best Friends, he contrasted the overachieving Roy Courtright and the underachieving Sam Grandy, with Grandy's wife trapped in the middle. The Houseguest was a comic gangster story in which a thug ingratiates himself with a Long Island family, then keeps them hostage -- at least they think he does. In Adventures of the Artificial Woman, a technician unlucky in love constructs an ideal partner, only to have her leave him and become a movie star.
"I ... have never thought of my work as being funny except incidentally," Berger once said, disputing the idea that he was a comic novelist. "I write as I do because that's the way I instinctively look at things."


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Nate Chapman, Bryce Biberstein, and Alex Schrader certainly are all smiles as Commencement awaits.
Commencement speakers Ryan Cloyd (left) and Andy Walsh prepare for their moment on stage.
What graduation ceremony wouldn't be complete without a selfie or two? Jorge Diaz-Aguilar (with phone) initiates this one.
Professor of Economics Christie Byun readies to march in.
Luke Holm says thumbs up to the Class of 2014!
Stephen L. Ferguson (left) and President Gregory D. Hess share a light moment heading into the ceremony.
Ryan Cloyd delivers his commencement address. 'Wabash has instilled a desire to know more, a constant questioning of why things are the way they are,' he said. 'Don't let that desire fade away.'
Classmates Harrison Slater, Drew Songer, Ray Stark, and Andrew Stegelmann (right to left from first full face) listen intently to Ryan Cloyd's speech.
Andy Walsh delivers his commencement message. 'True happiness is wanting what you already have,' he said. 'Obviously, all of us want success and want to achieve, yet we can't get caught up in the next goal and the next goal and forget to enjoy the journey…Don't let that determine your happiness.'
Edward Evans '13 proudly sings the Alma Mater.
'In this blending of the new and old — in this connection between the yesterdays and the tomorrows — the new tomorrows simply win,' said President Hess.
Junior Marshals Billy McManus (left) and Steve Batchelder join Faculty Marshal Tobey Herzog.
One hundred seventy-two members of the Class of 2014 received diplomas Sunday.
Chemistry professor Lon Porter enjoys a moment in the sun.
A close-up of the Caleb Mills mace.
Nate Scola moments after stepping off the podium with his diploma.
Ben Cook looks pleased upon leaving the podium.
Patrick Stroud was the last member of the Class of 2014 to exit the stage.
'Be assured, gentlemen, that your Wabash education has provided you with the simple gifts you need to find your way into your new tomorrows; to make good and to do good; to find meaning and purpose in life and to celebrate it,' said President Hess.
The sense of accomplishment on Graduation Day can be overwhelming, but not on the face of Ross Hendrickson.
'Go forth Gentlemen of Wabash and leave this place with pride in your accomplishments and confidence that you will make a difference in this world,' said President Hess.
Chet Turnbeaugh sings Old Wabash for the first time as an alumnus.
Members of the Class of 2014 process out toward the Senior Arch.
Senior John Andrew Walsh charged his classmates to notice the details in the pursuit of happiness in life after Wabash College when he spoke during the College's 176th Commencement Ceremony Sunday.
One hundred seventy-two men received sheepskin diplomas from first-year President Gregory D. Hess on a sunny, crisp spring day on the College Mall. Walsh and his classmate, Ryan Adam Cloyd, were the featured speakers per Wabash tradition on an afternoon that marked both endings and new beginnings.
Click on the links to view video of the Baccalaureate and Commencement.
"Endings are never easy. Thankfully, that is not why we are here," said Dr. Hess. "Spring is a time to celebrate renewal and the future. Surprisingly, this timing of commencement seems to sidestep the inconvenient issue that we are marrying the ending of one aspect of your life with the beginning of a new one. And in this blending of the new and old — in this connection between the yesterdays and the tomorrows — the new tomorrows simply win."
Walsh, winner of the Frank Hugh Sparks Award for All-Around Student Achievement, used his father, Kerry, Lou Gehrig, and classmate Jimmy LaRowe as examples of dealing with and overcoming life's obstacles in finding true happiness in life.
Walsh charged fellow graduates to appreciate life's little things as a way of keeping proper perspective.
"True happiness is wanting what you already have," said Walsh. "Obviously, all of us want success and want to achieve, yet we can't get caught up in the next goal and the next goal and forget to enjoy the journey…Don't let that determine your happiness. If you take the perspective that true happiness is wanting what you already have, you will be better able to appreciate the little things, the things many of us, including myself, often overlook."
President Hess reminded the graduates of education's simple gifts and the joys of brotherhood.
"Be assured, gentlemen, that your Wabash education has provided you with the simple gifts you need to find your way into your new tomorrows; to make good and to do good; to find meaning and purpose in life and to celebrate it," he said. "We gave you the keen eye of education so that you might see diverse points of view and to be challenged by them, augmenting your own point of view. We coaxed you to write your own story, so know that ultimately, the greatest education and the greatest gift we gave you here at this College, was each other."
The College awarded honorary degrees to a trio of Wabash alumni during the ceremony: business leader Stephen L. Ferguson '63, entrepreneur David J. Lahey '60, and civic leader David Warren Givens '56.
Cloyd, the College's other Commencement Speaker and co-winner of the John Maurice Butler Prize for Scholarship and Character, pressed upon his graduating class the responsibility to feed the curiosity that has been instilled in them during their time at Wabash.
"Wabash has instilled a desire to know more, a constant questioning of why things are the way they are," said Cloyd. "Don't let that desire fade away. It will have to be balanced with many other responsibilities, but it does not mean that it isn't worth the effort. Constantly expanding your own horizon is the best way you can lead a fulfilled life after Wabash."
Before ringing the bell Caleb Mills used to call the very first Wabash students to class, President Hess urged these 172 Wabash graduates to take on life's future challenges with confidence, "Go forth Gentlemen of Wabash and leave this place with pride in your accomplishments and confidence that you will make a difference in this world."
After acknowledging the ebbs and flows of his collegiate career, Walsh concluded, "We view Wabash as a place that forced us to come out of our comfort zone, a place that challenged us to think in ways we never even considered, and a place that made us better men because of how this College educated us."
Earlier in the day, Dr. Derek Nelson '99, associate professor of religion and director of the Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program delivered the Baccalaureate sermon, "Knowledge and Wisdom."
"As you start to figure out how to take knowledge and make it wisdom, as you take a degree and fashion it towards a career, as you take the experiences of classroom and lab and find your place in the world, I hope you'll remember the beginning of changing knowledge to wisdom is to find someone who needs you. For that person, be the one," he concluded.
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On Saturday, 22 students were inducted into the Wabash chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest honorary society; the list included seniors Adam Barnes (Bradford, Pa.), Samuel Bennett (Indianapolis, Ind.), Bryce Biberstein (Markle, Ind.), James Blaich (Crawfordsville, Ind.), Scott Campbell (Rushville, Ind.), Nathaniel Chapman (Evansville, Ind.), Michael Del Busto (Carmel, Ind.), Kevin Downey (Michigan City, Ind.), Cory Kopitzke (North Vernon, Ind.), Matthew Michaloski (Evansville, Ind.), Jared Miller (Wildwood, Mo.), James Morrison (Merrillville, Ind.), Taylor Neal (Yorktown, Ind.), Peter Nicksic (Valparaiso, Ind.), Adam Pagryzinski (Leo, Ind.), Mark Riffle (Greenwood, Ind.), Patrick Stroud (Noblesville, Ind.), Jared Valentine (Portland, Ind.), John Walsh (Clinton, Ind.), Bradley Wise (Monroe, Ga.), and Michael Witczak (Indianapolis, Ind.).
Those seniors join Cloyd, who was elected as a junior last year. Junior William McManus (Fort Wayne, Ind.) also was inducted from the Class of 2015.


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awww this post was very cute. And I loved your writing style. Life can overwhelm us at times, but I like how you are trying to enjoy it as much as you can. Good Luck on the finals and your future.
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Love this post, just as I do all your other ones! My favorite thing about it though is the connections that you make between the cookies and childhood moments. One of the greatest things about food (despite the taste) is the fact that a homemade recipe or a resemblence to one of mom's dishes can bring you back to any moment in the blink of an eye. The smell, the taste, the flavor… they all bring back a little part of a profound memory and for that food is irreplaceable. Thank you for sharing, this recipe looks delicious and I cannot wait to try!
I agree with Lexie, it is strange how the smell of food can take one back to happy childhood memories. That said, I still cannot handle the smell of cooking liver or kidneys :-)
I absolutlely love the way you make the reader feel like they are there, watching you experience this things! Your post are always so much fun to read and I love to try the recipes you post at the end of each blog! thanks :)
These look so delicious…I can't wait to try the recipe! Cookies do remind me of childhood. Your boyfriend sounds so sweet too!
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I love your writing and the way you connect the cookies to the story. The apricot walnut rugelach looks delicious!
This recipe sounds amazing! I like the way you tie the recipe into personal experiences.
Is it just me or did you take down the watermarks? I wish nobody would rip off your beautiful photography, and ruin it for everyone else!
I am not one for baking. Never have been, and to be totally honest, am probably never going to be. Yet something about the way that you add stories to the things you bake makes them seem more fun to try! I actually really want to try baking these – though maybe an amateur like me really should try something easier first! – and maybe even coming up with my own stories for whatever it is, or more accurately, whenever it is, that i choose to bake again!
my first visit here. and your baking looks great just as your blog is. just love it all. the photography is perfect. you really know how to bake and snap. If it was me, things could go horribly wrong.
mmm! looks great! they were taunting me on the screen, "eat me!"
Just wanted to let you know that the first time I made these they were amazing! I'm not making them for our Yom Kippur break-the-fast dinner. I think I'm going to skip everything else and just eat these. You know they're going to be good when the raw dough is delish!
Thank you!
Whoops! I meant I AM making them for Yom Kippur, which started this evening. They are spectaular!
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The annual Running of the Bulls takes place this weekend in Pamplona, Spain, and on Sunday at Nationals Park, the Nationals' racing presidents paid tribute by strapping horns onto George Washington, who chased Tom, Abe, and Teddy across the outfield during the 4th-inning presidents race.
Thomas Jefferson broke away for the early lead, but couldn't escape Washington's charge.
After passing Abe and Teddy, the father of our country tucked his horns and caught up to Jefferson, flipping the Sage of Monticello head first into the Section 133 stands before claiming the victory. The move puts George within two of Abe in the standings heading into the All Star break.
Sunday was Jewish Community Day at Nationals Park, and throughout the game, the HD scoreboard featured famous jewish baseball players through history. Klezmer recording artists The Alexandria Kleztet performed in the centerfield plaza before the game.
Finally, we have to give a nod to these guys who formed their own 5-man cheering section along the first baseline. The leprechaun, angel, Easter Bunny, native American, and Uncle Sam got together to send a simple message: Every Nationals win should be a National Holiday.
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Washington's 'Scandal' closet holds many outfits
NEW YORK – Notice anything different about Olivia Pope's look this season on "Scandal"?
It's still full of the very best designer labels, and her suits — a good chunk of her wardrobe — blend an aggressive edge with a sexy shape while staying professional.
But in Season 3, there's a hint more color, and many of the silhouettes are asymmetrical, showing her just a bit off-kilter. "Hopefully viewers will see the emotional reason to make these changes, and we've amped up the fashion, too, because we needed it for the story," explains costume designer Lyn Paolo.
Olivia has a full life and — just like everyone else — needs the right clothes for it, says Paolo, who talks about her favorite character on ABC's hit inside-the-Beltway show (Thursdays at 10 p.m. EST) as if she were real.
Kerry Washington, a fashion It Girl in her own right, plays Olivia, described by the network as a "professional fixer."
The show has to buy the clothes and keep them because Paolo is unsure if creator Shonda Rhimes will want to revisit a particular scene in a flashback. As a result, Olivia's closet is as big as the Manhattan Starbucks where Paolo met a reporter.
Paolo shops from the runway, at department stores, from windows and online. When she was on vacation this past summer on a cruise, she fell in love with a fellow passenger's outfit. She told the passenger the clothing tag was showing (it wasn't) so she could "fix it" and steal a peek at the label.
Is there anything in that bulging "Scandal" closet that Paolo would like to borrow? "I'm a uniform girl. I dislike dressing myself. It's all black and white in my closet — I wear whatever is easiest to get me through the day."
She is, after all, dressing up to 80 people per episode. "We should call it 'Scramble' not 'Scandal.'"
Olivia was easy, though. Paolo had her look down before she knew Washington would be the star — and maybe even before "Scandal" was pitched as a pilot.
Paolo, whose credits also include "The West Wing" and "ER," says she keeps dozens of files on imaginary characters, cutting out photos and jotting down notes about what they would wear and stuffing them into folders. One was "an African-American woman in light clothes and a custom Louise Green hat," she said. "I had an image of Diana Ross. I would have liked a bigger brim on the hat, but our sets are too dark and you couldn't see Kerry's face."
Paolo also works on Showtime's "Shameless," and her problem there is that the characters are supposed to have a gritty appearance, but Emmy Rossum, the most fashion-y of the cast, is a little model-like, she says. "You'll look at her and say, 'She looks too good in that!'"
There are other stars that Paolo would like the opportunity to dress, including Patricia Heaton and Julianna Margulies, whom she calls "so elegant and stylish."
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For your enjoyment this Christmas weekend, the Washington Nationals released a behind-the-scenes video from the racing presidents' guest appearance earlier this month in The Washington Ballet's production of The Nutcracker at the Warner Theatre.
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[UPDATED 8/27 with details from SF Asian.]
We've begun hearing back from museums that did business with Subhash Kapoor, the New York antiquities dealer under arrest in India for trafficking in looted antiquities.
For those just catching up with the Kapoor story: The dealer, an American citizen of Indian extraction, has operated Art of the Past gallery on Madison Avenue since 1974. He was arrested in Germany last year and was recently extradicted to India, where he is alleged to have been the mastermind behind a network of temple looters operating in Tamil Nadu.
Authorities there have also accused Kapoor of trafficking in looted antiquities from other parts of India, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia and the Islamic world. Federal authorities in the United States have also issued an arrest warrant for Kapoor and seized more than $30 million worth of allegedly stolen antiquities from Kapoor's Manhattan storage facilities in recent months.
Kapoor has done business with leading museums around the world. Indian authorities have said that Kapoor worked with his brother Ramesh Kapoor, who runs Kapoor Galleries in New York. Kapoor Galleries was not raided by federal authorities, and to our knowledge Remesh has not been charged with a crime.
Here are the 236 Kapoor objects we and others have tracked down so far:
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art acquired 62 objects from Kapoor. Twenty-eight were purchased from Kapoor or his Manhattan gallery Art of the Past between 1989 and 2007. Another 33 were donated by Kapoor between 1978 and 2000. We've posted the complete list here.
Twenty-nine of the objects are ancient. All but 8 of them belong to a single hoard of ancient figurines from Madhya Pradesh, in central India.
Two other antiquities are terracotta pieces from the 3rd and 2nd Century BC from Mathura, in Uttar Pradesh. A third is a copper sculture of Mayadevi from Uttar Pradesh, circa 100 AD.
Another 18 objects at LACMA were acquired from Kapoor's brother Ramesh, who Indian authorities say worked with his brother Subhash to import looted antiquities illegally removed from India.
LACMA acknowledges it has no documented ownership history for any of the ancient objects. "We're re-examining all these items in the light of the recent news," said museum spokeswoman Miranda Carroll.
The Boston MFA has just one object fr0m Kapoor – a page from a 17th century illustrated manuscript, The Jealous Older Woman and the More Impetuous Younger Woman. It was purchased in 1995 from Art of the Past. Kapoor bought it at Sotheby's, New York, in 1994, and was privately owned prior to being sold at auction, museum records show. The MFA also purchased two 17th century works from Kapoor Gallery.
The Art Institute has two objects purchase from Kapoor. "We are in the process of confirming the provenance information and will take appropriate steps when we have completed this review," said museum spokeswoman Erin Hogan. We've requested information about the objects — the museum's online collection database does not allow for searching by provenance.
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Museum spokesman Tim Hallman said, "We have not been contacted by any officials investigating Mr. Kapoor's dealings. However, when news broke of the investigation, the museum's director instructed our chief curator to review the collection records to determine if we obtained items from Mr. Kapoor. We are still reviewing the files (our holdings include more than 18,000 artworks)." We'll post the list of objects when we get it.
UPDATE: Hallman got back to us with details. The Asian Art Museum acquired four objects from Kapoor, including a 14th century statue of the Hindu deity Shiva in the fierce form of Bhairava (above), said to be from Karnataka, the Indian state west of Tamil Nadu where Kapoor is being held for trial. The Asian purchased the statue from Kapoor in 2000. "We have have carefully reviewed our records for each object and have not found any information to suggest that that any of these four art objects were acquired or imported illegally," Hallman said in an email. The complete list of Kapoor objects at the SF Asian can be found here.
The Toledo Museum continues to ignore our requests for information about objects they acquired from Kapoor and several other dealers tied to the illicit trade. The New York Times reported that Toledo acquired 44 terracotta antiquities from Kapoor in 2007. The museum's website appears to offer information about just one of those objects. It is hard to fathom how a museum whose considerable assets are exempt from taxes because they operate "in the public interest" can refuse to answer the public's questions about objects in its collection. Only Princeton University Art Museum has shown a similar disdain for the public's right to know.
As we reported last week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired 81 objects from Kapoor, four of which are antiquities that have no documented ownership history. For reasons that remain unclear, the museum also knowingly acquired five forgeries from Kapoor in 1991 for the museum's study collection. Many of the Met's other Kapoor objects are drawings from the 17th, 18th or 19th century highlighted in the museum's 2009 exhibit, Living Line: Selected Indian Drawings From the Subhash Kapoor Gift.
The NGA has acknowledged buying 21 objects from Kapoor, including a bronze Dancing Shiva said to be tied to the Kapoor investigation. That news has set off a wave of press reports in Australia about the case. The museum claims to have followed a "thorough due diligence process" and contacted Indian authorities this week to offer its cooperation in the investigation.
UPDATE: The museum released a statement saying, "The Gallery has commenced plans to undertake a comprehensive re-examination by a panel of internal and external art experts of the supplied documentation as well as the provenance of work acquired from Mr Kapoor, as many international Galleries are also doing. The Gallery is liaising closely with the Indian High Commission in Canberra to ensure that the internationally accepted protocols for dealing with such issues are followed." The NGA has not yet released details about the provenance of the Shiva or other Kapoor objects.
The Freer and Sackler Galleries told the New York Times that the only object they had acquired from Kapoor was a 20th century Indian necklace.
UPDATE: David Gill notes The Sackler has issued a statement saying it is investigating several objects purchase from Kapoor Galleries, controlled by Subhash Kapoor's brother. The objects include a marble bracket figure, India, 13th c. (purchased in 1995); a seated figure of Jambala, Tibet, bronze, 13th c. (purchased in 1996); a Gautama Buddha, Tibet, gilt copper, 14th c. (purchased 1997); and a pair of lamps of fortune, India, bronze, 17th c. (purchased in 2000). The statement notes that The Freer|Sackler "were among the first U.S. museums to adopt the UNESCO convention of 1970, which forbids the acquisition or display of works illegally removed from their nation of origin after 1970."
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The Art Gallery of New South Wales purchased six objects from Kapoor, Australian media reported. Former Getty Museum director Michael Brand, who took the helm of the Australian museum in June, said, "No-one has made any suggestions that the works in our collection or stolen or that there are any issues about those works. Should someone come to us and say that there is reason to believe then we would obviously collaborate in any way we can." Among the objects at the museum are this one, highlighted by David Gill.
The website of website of the Tamil Nadu police has additional information about the Kapoor investigation, along with photos of missing idols. Where are these idols now? The NGA's Shiva appears superficially similar to one of the Dancing Shiva's shown there.
Kapoor's Alleged Accomplices: Indian authorities are looking for two of Kapoor's alleged accomplices, The Times of India reports. [A QUOTE FROM THE ARTICLE HAS BEEN REMOVED AT THE REQUEST OF ATTORNEYS REPRESENTING NEIL PERRY-SMITH.] Paul Barford does some digging into the alleged accomplices are finds some intriguing clues. [UPDATE: BARFORD'S POST HAS BEEN REMOVED.]
Have you tracked down other Kapoor antiquities? If so, send us the details and we'll credit you with the find: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Every once in a while, I enjoy preparing a dish in my wok; here's a favorite which I adapted from Ken Hom's Quick Wok:
Stir-Fried Lamb with Garlic and Basil
Serves 4
- 1 pound lean lamb steaks
- 2 tablespoons peanut oil
- 6 garlic cloves, peeled and thinly sliced
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- Handful fresh basil leaves
- Handful fresh coriander sprigs
- 1 tablespoon rice wine
- 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons sesame oil
- 2 teaspoons cornflour
- Cut the lamb into thin slices. In a medium-sized bowl, combine the ingredients for the marinade. Add the lamb, mix well and marinade for 20 minutes at room temperature. Drain and discard the marinade.
- Heat a wok over high heat until it is very hot. Add the oil. when the oil becomes hot and starts tsmoking slighly add the the lamb and stir-fry for 2 minutes.
- Add the garlic, salt and pepper. Continue to stir-fry for another 3 minutes.
- Finally toss in the basil and coriander, and continue to stir-fry for 1 more minute or until the herbs have wilted.
- Turn onto a warm serving platter and serve at once.
The garlic and basil, the two aromatic ingredients, make this an unusual but delicious dish.
Enjoy, gentle reader, enjoy!